#alfred guzzetti

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Following three years of conversations with filmmaker Alfred Guzzetti, Scott MacDonald published this in-depth interview focussing on Guzzetti's experimental practice in Millennium Film Journal.  Alfred Guzzetti and Kurt Stallmann's Time Present screens as part of the Life and the Light That Shines Through the Cracks programme on Sunday 19 October, 4:00 PM at BFI NFT3.

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I. “When I witness an event, I am present to it and it to me. It presents itself to me. Those present are present to me. I am indeed in the present. When I film an event, I am also present to it and it also presents itself to me. When I view what I have filmed, I enter into a double relationship. The film is present to me while the event is re-presented. The representation is not simply a reprise, for while the vent is present to me, I am no longer in its present. The re-presented event is missing several things. If I turn to the left or right, I encounter the limit of the frame and not the extension of the real space. IF I move my head, I do not see around objects However long a shot may be held, the continuity of time is eventually broken. What is on the screen then is a portion, a sample of what one can witness and, being so, it exerts a claim to be representative, taht is, to stand fora larger whole, even a totality.” II. "Film is haunted by missing pieces: the before, the after, the left, the right, the top and bottom, the front and back - and more than this, the event itself, so vividly evoked, so poignantly absent. Indeed, film is in the business of manufacturing absences. Does it do anything else so powerfully?

 Notes on Representation and the Nonfiction Film - Alfred Guzzetti

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I. “When I witness an event, I am present to it and it to me. It presents itself to me. Those present are present to me. I am indeed in the present.

When I film an event, I am also present to it and it also presents itself to me. When I view what I have filmed, I enter into a double relationship. The film is present to me while the event is re-presented. The representation is not simply a reprise, for while the vent is present to me, I am no longer in its present. The re-presented event is missing several things. If I turn to the left or right, I encounter the limit of the frame and not the extension of the real space. IF I move my head, I do not see around objects However long a shot may be held, the continuity of time is eventually broken. What is on the screen then is a portion, a sample of what one can witness and, being so, it exerts a claim to be representative, taht is, to stand fora larger whole, even a totality.”

II. "Film is haunted by missing pieces: the before, the after, the left, the right, the top and bottom, the front and back - and more than this, the event itself, so vividly evoked, so poignantly absent. Indeed, film is in the business of manufacturing absences. Does it do anything else so powerfully?

— Notes on Representation and the Nonfiction Film - Alfred Guzzetti